The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

It's rude to count people as you pass them. Out loud.

Anonymous

Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.

Vaughan, Bill

Happiness is like coke something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else

Aldous Huxley

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

Mark Twain

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

Alexander Ludwig

We were meant to give our lives away. Spend more time living your legacy instead of worrying about leaving it.

Lee J. Colan

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintance.

Benjamin Franklin

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

Bob Graham

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

Dan Rather

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln